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Hi John,
Last year in California more than 26,000 native animals were killed by Wildlife Services, a shadowy federal program that relies on guns, poisons and cruel traps to do its dirty business.
That's why we just went to court to shut down Wildlife Services' operations in 10 more California counties. County by county, state by state, we won't stop until we put Wildlife Services out of business.
Please give today to the Stop Wildlife Services Fund.
Wildlife Services' trail of slaughter reaches far beyond California's borders. Nationwide last year, 1.5 million native animals were slaughtered by this government-sponsored killing operation, mostly at the behest of the agriculture industry.
These heartless operations cause immense suffering through the use of painful leg traps, strangulation snares, and aerial gunning.
Non-target animals are threatened too. Because of the program's indiscriminate methods, pets and protected wildlife like gray wolves have been killed — and it'll happen again if we don't stop them.
We've been fighting Wildlife Services for years — and we're winning. Just weeks ago we secured a ban on its use of deadly M-44s — spring-loaded capsules armed with cyanide spray — across more than 10 million acres of public land in Wyoming.
We also helped secure a ban on the targeting of beavers, minks, muskrats and otters by Wildlife Services in Oregon, saving hundreds of animals a year. And in California our legal action got the program to stop shooting and trapping beavers on more than 11,000 miles of river and 4 million acres of land.
We're winning our battles against Wildlife Services, but we still have a long way to go. We won't tolerate the purposeful, mass killing of wildlife.
Our legal victories save thousands of animals every year, but we need your help to keep up the pace.
Please give today to the Stop Wildlife Services Fund.
For the wild,
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